Sunday 28 May 2017

Star Spangled Leggy Lovely

The adult summer American Golden Plover still at the Gann early afternoon.  It was feeding on the mud c.300m upstream of the wooden boardwalk across the river on the west bank with a Grey Plover.  It showed well (looking across the river) albeit with a cautious approach. At 1.28pm they both flew downstream and out into the bay - by then the tide was well out.  Best to try and get the bird on a rising tide probably, say about 2 hours before high tide?  Big thanks to Derek for finding it - I'm struggling to think of a smarter wader that I have seen.  Begs the question if it is the same bird that stopped off at Angle Bay last spring?  2 consecutive spring records at sites quite close to each other after a very long gap back to our last record...